Labeling-machine.



PatentedfAug. 22, |899.

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R. `H. W. &. C. F. SCHMIDT.

LABELING MACHINE.

(Application filed Nov. 19, 1897. Renewed Mar 21, 1899.)

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No. 63|,386. Patented Aluvg. 22, |899.

R. H. W. 8|. C. F. SCHMIDT. LABELING MACHINE.

(Application led Nov. 19, 1897. Renewed Mar 21, 1899.)

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No. 63|,386. Patentedy Aug. 22, |899. R. H. W. & C. F. SCHMIDT.

LABELING MACHINE.

(Application filed No-v. 19, 1897. Renewed Mar 21, 1899.)

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No. 63I,386. Patented Aug.. 22, |899.

` R. H. W. 8|. C. F. SCHMIDT.

LABELING WIAGHINE. (Application led Nov. 19, 1897. Renewed Mar 21, 1899.)

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CFL-faim: i' /1 Y l *By- NrrgED STATES RICHARD H. w. sCIIMID'r AND CoaNILs F. sCIIMID'r, or IIANsAs CITY,

MISSOURI. A

LABELiNd-jMACi-HNE.

, SPECIFICTION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 631,386, dated August 22, 189g.

Application filed No ember 19, 1897.V `Renewed March 21, 1899. SerialNo. 709,905. (No model.)

To all whom- A[t Wray concern:

Be it known that we, RICHARD H. NV. SCHMIDT and CORNILs F. SCHMIDT, of Kansas City, Jackson county,Missouri,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in LabelingfMachines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference 4being had to the accompanying drawings,

sists, essentially, of a pair of roller-carrying rock-frames to receive, label, and discharge the bottles or cans successively, a mechanism for permitting the bottles or cans successively and at regular intervals of time to enter into engagement with the rollers of said rockframes, and a mechanism for positively feeding and guiding the label or labels to the bottles or cans. It also comprises a mechanism for perforating and weakening the label-Web at regular distances apart in order to deter mine positively the length of each label.'

The invention furthermore consists in cer tain novel and peculiar features of construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the appended claims.

In order that the invention Inay be fully understood, we will proceed to describe it with j reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a top plan view of a complete machine. Fig. 2 is a vertical sec= tion taken on the line II II of Fig. 1. Figf' is a vertical section .taken on the line III III of Fig. l. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional View, on an enlarged scale, to show the bottle or can labeling mechanism and particularly the mechanism for labeling the necks of the bot.

ties. Fig. 5 represents a vertical section, on an enlarged scale, of the label feed, perforating, and guide mechanism. Fig. o' is a sectional view of a part of the cutting-roller on an enlarged scale. Fig. 7 is a detail perspec- .which motion is imparted in the usual Inanner, and also Inounted rigidly upon said shaft, at the outer sides'of the frame, are the cogpinions 6. One of said pinions through the medium of a train of gearing comprising the wheels 7, 8, 9, andlO drives .the shaft 1l, journaled in the frame parallel with and a suitable distance rearward of the drive-shaft 4. The wheels 7 and 8 are journaled upon stubs projecting outwardly ofthe Iframe, and the wheel 9 is formed integral with or secured to the wheel 8, so as to turn therewith.

Secured to or formed integral with the wheel .10, mounted rigidly upon shaft 11, is a pinion 12, which, through the medium of the transmitting-gear 13, journaled upon a stubshaft of the frame, drives the cog 14'and the transverse vshaft 15, upon which the said cogwheel Vis mounted, and said shaft, through the medium of the inter-meshing cog-wheels 16 and 17, drives the companionshai't 18, arranged vertically above the shaft 15 and also journaledin the frame.

rMounted rigidly upon the shafts 15 and 18 are a pair of companion sectional rolls, the sections of the lower roll being numbered 19 and 19a, respectively, and the sections of the upper or companion roll being numbered 20 and' 20, respectively. The sections 19 and 20 are for engagement with a label to be applied to a can or the body of a bottle, While the sections 19 and 20L are adapted vfor engagement with a narrow label for the neck of a bottle, all as will be hereinafter more particularly referred to.

The label numbered 21 for the can or body of the bottle leads forwardly between the rolls 19 and 20 from the label-roll 22, mounted tive view of a part of the cutting knife or l upon the shaft 23, journaled in notches 24 in IOO the rear part of the frame, said shaft being rotated by the action of the feed-rollers on the label-web.

The rolls 19 19 and 2O 20 are not only feedrolls, but also label-perforating rolls, and consequently determine the length of the label to be pastedupon the bottle or can.

The section 19 of roll 19 19 is provided with a recess 25 of greater length than the width of the label and, if desired, for the full length of the roll, and communicating with said recess atsuitable points are cavities 26, extending more deeply into the body of the roll. A longitudinal knife 27, provided with a serrated cutting edge, centrally partitions the recess 25 and is arranged radially of the roll and projects beyond its periphery. A pair of angle-plates 2S are secured to opposite sides of said knife, and their arms, eX- tending at right angles to said knife, form a hase or bottom for the recess 25 and are provided with notches 29, registering with the cavities 2G. Coil-springs 30, extending through said notches 29, bear at their opposite ends against Ithe bases of the cavities 2G and the inner side of the bracket 31, which its slidingly in the recess 25 and is provided with a central longitudinal slot through which the knife projects, said slot being widened, as shown at 33, to receive the angle-plates, between which the knife is directly secured. Said sliding bracket is normally pressed outward by said springs, so that its outer rounded surface shall cover the cutting edge of the rigid knife. The bracket is provided in its outer face with deep cavities 34 to receive the heads of the bolts 35,whieh extend through the expansion-springs 30 and are screwed firmly into the shaft 15, to the end that the outward movement of said bracket induced by said springshall be limited toa plane corresponding to the cutting edge of the knife. The section 2O of the other roll 2O 20 is provided with a recess 36 of about the same length and width as the recess 25, and secured therein is a central plate 37, which projects beyond the periphery of theroll and is provided centrally with a longitudinal groove 38 to receive the point of the knife 27 as the labelweb is perforated. This plate 37 is fianked at each side and held in place by strips 39, the outer edges of which slope from the periphery of the roll to the outer edge of the plate 37, to the end that an unyielding surface will be presented, which forces the sliding frame inward at the proper time in the rotation of the rolls, so as to expose the knife 27 and perforate the label, the springs 30 pushing said frame outward again immediately the knife and groove cease to engage, and thus disconnecting the perforated label and the knife in order that the former may not cling to the knife and be torn by its continued rotation, as will be readily understood. The sections 19 and 20n are of precisely the same construction as sections 19 and 20.

Arranged upon the shaft 23 in line with the sections 19l and 2O"l of the feed and cutting rolls is the narrow roll 40 for labeling the necks of bottles, and the label-web of said roll is acted upon, as hereinbefore suggested, by the sections 19a and 20.of the feed and cutting rolls, which sections in practice should not exceed the diameter of the necks of the bottles. As shown, these rolls are about the same diameter as the necks of the bottles. Consequentlythe labels will completely encircle the bottle-necks, while the labels for the body portions of the bottles will extend only part way around in the customary manner. The length of the label relative to the circumference of the bottle, however, is unimportant and may be varied by simply using rolls of different diameters.

In line with and of the same size as the lower sectional roll 19 19 is a sectional roll 41 41, mounted rigidly upon the shaft 11, and companion to and of the same diameter as said roll is a similar sectional roll 42 42, verticallyabove it and mounted rigidly upon the shaft 43 43, journalcd in the forwardlyprojectingarms44, pivotally mounted at their rear ends, as at 45, upon the shaft 18, so as to constitute two independent swinging frames, force of gravity alone being utilized to hold the sectional roller 42 42down upon the main and neck labels, respectively, in order that the friction they will engender may cause the rotation of said sectional roll and the reliable propulsion of theinterposed labels. Aguideplate 46 for the main label and a similar plate 4Gn for the neck-label extend forwardly from said rolls in a plane just above that represented by their junction-point, as seen most clearly in Fig. 5, and are supported by the cross-bar 47, carried by the frame. Said plates extend forward to a plane about vertically above the main or driving shaft 4, and arranged above and slightly in advance of the plate 46 is a soft-rubber or label-applying roller48 for acting upon the main label, and said roller is mounted rigidly upon the transverse shaft 49, journaled at its opposite ends in the upper and front end of a pair of bell-crank levers 50, which levers are arranged adjacent to the inner sides of the supporting-frame and are mounted to rock upon the drive-shaft 4, their rea-r ends 50 occupying the vertical plane of and adapted to be depressed by the cams 51 once in each revolution of the shaft 11 upon which they are rigidly mounted. Atrain of gearing com prising the wheels 52, 53, and 54 transmits motion from the drive-shaft 4 to the shaft 49, the intermediate gear-wheel 53 being mounted upon a stubshaft projecting from 011e side of the rock-shaft formed by said bell-cranks. The nortnal position of said rock-frame is with its upper end advanced, as shown in full lines, and it is held in this position with a yielding pressure by means of retractile springs 55, connected at their lower ends to said bell-cranks and at their upper ends to the vertical standards 56, se-

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cured upon the sides of the supporting-frame, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, and on'ce in each revolution of the shaft ll, as hereinbefore stated, the cams 5l engage the rock-frame and throw its front end rearward to the position shown in dotted lines, Fig. 3, this operation taking place ,to permit the bottle or can to pass the roller 48 and drop down against the hard roller 57, mounted rigidly on the shaft 4, fora purpose which will be hereinafter explained. Journaled upon the driveshaft and arranged at opposite sides of the guide-plate 46a and having its upper end rearward of and in the same plane as the shaft 49 is a rock-frame consisting of a pair of arms 58, and journaled between them in a lower plane than the roller 48 is a corresponding soft-rubber roller 59, adapted to apply a label to the neck of the bottle at the same moment that the roller 48 applies the labelto its body. This roller is held advanced-1I. e., in the position shown in Fig. 4-by means of a retractile spring 60, which connects the lower end of the rock-frame with a fixed point-viz., the screw 6l of the supportingframe.

62 designates a transverse shaft, which is journaled at its opposite ends in the frame of the machine a suitable distance forward of and above the drive-shaft, and mounted rigidly upon said shaft at one side of the frame is a cog-wheel 63, which is connected by a train of gearing to one of the pinions 6 of the drive-shaft, comprising the wheels 64 and 65, formed integral or connected together and journaled upon the stub-shaft 67 ofthe frame, and the wheel 66, journaled upon the stub-shaft 68 of the frame. The wheel 66 is formed With or counectedrigidly to a camwheel 69, provided with aperipheral notch 70.

A T-shaped frame 7l` is journaled upon each end of the shaft 62, and projecting inwardly from one of the arms of each T-shaped frame is a pin 72, carrying an antifrictionroller 73,engagingcontinuously the periphery of the cam 69 and adapted atintervals-that is to say, once in each revolution of said cam-to drop into the notch 70 of the same for a purpose which will hereinafter appear.

A roller 74, which is adapted, in conjunction with the hard roller 57, to support and revolve the bottle as the label is applied thereto, is mounted rigidly upon the shaft 75, journaled in the lower end of said T-frames, so as to constitute practically a single swinging frame. A cog-wheel 76 is mounted rigidly upon the shaft near one end and is driven, through the agency of the gears 77 and 78, mounted upon stub-shafts of said swinging frame,by the cog-wheel 79, rigidly secured upon the drivenshaft 62.

The bottle feed regulator or governor mechanism is constructed as follows-that is to say, journaled in the upper ends of a pair of arms 8O of the supporting-frame is a transverse shaft 81, which is arranged about vertically over the center of the space between the bottle supporting and revolving rollers 57 and 74, and mounted rigidly upon said shaft, at a suitable distance apart, are spider-frames 82, provided with a plurality of concave surfaces, each of which describes an arc of a circle of about the same diameter as the body of the bottles to be labeled, and these spiderframes through the agency of mechanism to be presently described successively engage the bottles. A pair of small ratchet-wheels 83, mounted adjustably on opposite ends of the shaft 8l are provided with only two teeth disposed diametrically opposite each other, the teeth of one wheel being arranged at right angles to the teeth of the other. Projecting inwardly from the arms 8O of the supportingframe a slight distance below and forward of the shaft 8l are stub-shafts 84, and journaled upon said stub-shafts are curved dogs 85, which are pressed inwardly toward said ratchet-wheels continuously in the path of their teeth 83 by means of actuating-springs 86, said springs being mounted upon the stubshafts 84 and engaged with the dogs in the customary manner. (See Fig. l in particular.) Projecting inwardly from the arms 8O of the frame in an imaginary line extending centrally through the s haftSl and stub-shafts 84 and below the latter a distance equal to the space between said shaft and stub-shafts are stub-shafts 87, and secured adjustably thereon by set-screws or their equivalents are cam-wheels 88 and 89, eachcam having only one shoulder, said shoulder being arranged diametrically opposite to the shoulder of the other cam, and one of them, 88, being adapted for engagement with one dog 85 and the other, 89, for engagement with the other dog 85 in order that the dogs shall be operated alternately, for a purpose which will be presently explained.

They cam wheels 88 and 89 are driven through the medium of cog-wheels 90, formed integral with or connected to said cam-Wheels, and the pinions 91, formed integral with or secured to the cog-wheels 66, as shown most clearly in Fig. 2.

Arranged forward of the mechanism just described and mounted upon the front tie-rod 3 is a frame 92, provided with a base plate 0r table 93, which slopes downwardly and rearwardly to a point about vertically over said tie-rod (see Fig. 3) and then changes to a steeper grade, as shown at 94, with its terminus a distance about equal to the diameter of the bottle to be labeled from the oppositelydisposed concave surface of the spider-frame. At one side margin of said table it is provided with a vertical guide-flange 95, against which the bott-oms of the bottles orcans are pushed as they are fed to the machine, to the end that the labels shall always be wrapped around the bottles or cans at the same point. After each bottle has been properly labeled it follows the direction indicated by the arrow a, Fig. 3, and falling upon the downwardly and forwardly sloping plate 97 is causedto roll IOO I to

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forward from immediately under the machine to give the operator an opportunity to remove the bottle before tho succeeding one can roll forward and strike it, or, if desired, the bottles or cans as they drop out of the machine may be received by an endless conveyer, which is not shown in this connection, however, as such device is old in kindred arts at least.

Assuming now that the machine is connected up to a suitable motor and is in operation,a charge of bottles,for instance,is placed upon the rearwardly-sloping feed-table, as shown in Fig. 3, with the foremost bottle, we will assume, engaged by the spider-frame, as shown. Immediately after it assumes this position the continuously-rotating cam S8 engages the lower end of the dog S5 and throws it to the position shown in dotted lines, Fig. 3. As this disconnection takes place the weight of the bottle causes it to roll forward and drop down between and upon the rollers 57 and 74, this gravity movement of the bottle causing a corresponding rotary movement of the spider-frame, which, however, before it completes a quarter of a revolution receives in its next concave side the succeeding bottle, said bottle following closely upon the heels of that one described as having dropped upon and between the rollers 57 and 74c and being succeeded in its late position by the third bottle. Then the spider-frame has completed a quarterof a revolution, however, its movement is checked by the abutment of a tooth S3 of the ratchet-wheel at the opposite side of the machine upon the companion dog S5, the former dog,or that which was moved by the cam S8, having been pressed back against its ratchet-wheel immediately it was disengaged by said cam, so as to be in position for engagement with the tooth S3, arranged opposite to that which formerly engaged it. Just before the first-named bottle was permitted to drop down upon the rollers 57 and 74C the cams l had engaged and carried the bell-crank rock-frame to the position shown in dotted lines, Fig. 3, to the end that the soft roller 4S might be moved out of the path of the bottle about to descend, and immediately after such descent had taken place said cams released said frame and permitted the springs to return the rock-frame to its original position with the soft roller 4S pressing against the upper side of said bottle now being revolved by reason of its frictional engagement with said revolving rollers 57 and 74. As the bell-crank rock-frame was thrown rearwardly to the position shown in dotted lines, Fig. 3, the shaft ai) engaged the upper end of the neck-label-roller rock-frame and moved it in the same direction in order to take the neck-label roller out of the path of descent of the bottle, and immediately said cam released said bell-crank rock-frame the spring 60 returned the neck-label-roller rockframe back to its original position with said neck-roller pressing firmly against the neck of the bottle, or, rather, with the roller 4S against the advanced ends of the label-webs 2l and 40, leading from the rollers 22 and 40, said label-webs, of course, when the machine is first started, being fed forward by hand to the proper point. Immediately after the bottle has assumed the depressed position shown in Fig. 3 and begins to rotate the soft rollers 4S and 59 press the label firmly against it, and consequently, as said bottle revolves at a much higher rate of speed than the labelwebs naturally travel, said webs are tensioned or drawn taut with aV snap and with sufficient force to tear them apart along the line of perforations made by the knife, as hereinbefore described. The severed portions are rapidly wound upon the bottle and caused to adhere to the same by being coated at their under sides with a suitable adhesive material dampened by contact with the bottle, dipped in water, or otherwise dampened before or after being placed upon the feed-table. To insure that the label is properly affixed to the bottle, the latter is caused to make two revolutions, and at the instant the second revolution is completed the antifriction-rollers'73 drop, by the weight of the swinging T-frame, the parts carried thereby and said bottle into the notches of said cam-wheels and permit said bottle to escape from between the f roller 57 and the roller 74 (now moved out of the way) upon the deflector-plate 97, which causes it to roll forward, as hereinbefore described. This new position of the T-frame, however, is held only momentarily or until the revolving cams have time to lift the rollers 73 out of the notches 70, and thereby swing the roller 74 back to the position shown in full lilies, and at the same instant that this roller assumes its original position the cams 5l, in the manner hereinbcfore described, swing the soft or label-applying rollers back out of the way to permit the next bottle to drop down upon rollers 57and 74, said next bottle being permitted to assume this position by reason of the fact that the cam 89 has traveled half a revolution and has tripped its respective dog and permitted the bottle, by reason of its own weight, to drop down and incidentally rotate the spider-frame another quarter of a revolution, said movement being limited by the engagement with the firstnamed dog S5 of the tooth S3, arranged diametrically opposite to that tooth which first engaged said dog, and as said spider-frame assumes such new position the third bottle enters its next concave side and partakes of the movement of said frame until the latter is arrested, as described.

. All succeeding operations being repetitions of those described, it is obvious that we have produced a machine which embodies thedesirable features enumerated in the statement of invention, and it is to be understood that various changes may be resorted to in the way of form, detail construction, arrangement, or proportion, and that mechanical IOO IIO

equivalents may be employed without 'departing iro'm the spirit and scope or Sacriiicing any of thev advantages of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In alabeling-niachine, the combination with a supporting-roller for engagement with the bottle or can to be labeled, and a device for engagement with the same at another point of a swinging frame, a driven roller carried thereby, and a driven cam-wheel engaging frictionally a part of said swinging frame to hold said roller against the bottle or can to be labeled, and provided with a notclrto periodically receive the engaged part of the frame to permit the frame to swing with its rollerout of the path of the bottle or can and permit it to escape from its position against the first-named roller, substantially as described. Y

2. In a can-labeling machine, the combination with a plurality of supporting devices for engagement with a bottle or can to be labeled, a swinging frame provided with a device for engaging the .bottle or can to be labeled at its opposite side, and means to periodically swing said frame away from the first-named supporting device to permit the labeled bottle or can to fall between them, and to return said frame to its original'position immediately said bottle or can has escaped, of a bottle-feed regulator or governor above said swinging frame, and means to release said regulator or governor and permit a bottle or can to fall and be caught by the first-named supporting devices immediately the swinging frame has resumed its original or operative position, substantially as described. Y

3. In a labeling-machine, the combination of a roller for engaging the bottle or can to be labeled, a periodically-operated swinging frame, provided with a driven roller'frictionally engaging the bottle or can near its opposite side, and in conjunction with the former roller rapidly revolving it, a rock-frame suitably mounted, and a label-applying roller carried thereby and holding with a yielding pressure the adhesive side of an interposed label upon said bottle or can, substantially as described.

4. In a labeling-machine, the combination of a roller for engaging the bottle or can to be labeled, a periodically-operated swinging frame, -provided with a driven roller frictionally engaging the bottle or can near its opposite side, and in conjunction with the former roller rapidly revolving it, a rock-frame suitably mounted, a roller journaled in the saine, and pressed toward said bottle or can, and means for periodically moving said roller away from the bottle, substantiallyas described.

5. In a labeling-machine, the combination ofa roller for engaging the bottle or can to be labeled, a periodically-operated swinging frame, provided with a driven'roller frictionally engaging the bottle or can near its opposite side, and in conjunction with the former roller rapidly revolving it, a rock-frame suitably mounted, a roller journaled in the same and pressed toward said bottle or can, and a cam -wheel for periodically operating said rock-frame and moving said roller away from the bottle or can, substantially as described.

(5. In a labeling-machine, the combination of a roller for engaging the bottle or can to be labeled, a periodically-operated swinging frame, provided with a driven roller frictionally engaging the bottle or can near its opposite side, and in conjunction with the former rolle; rapidly revolving it, a rock-frame suitably mounted, a label-applying roller carried thereby, and a spring connecting the rockframe with a fixed point of the supportingframe and causing said roller to press the adhesive side of an interposed label firmly upon the revolving bottle or can, substantially asdescribed.

7 In a labeling-machine, the combinatio of a roller for engaging the bottle or canto be labeled, a swinging frame provided with a driven roller frictionally engaging the bottle or can near its opposite side, and in conjunction with the former roller rapidly revolving it, a rock-frame suitably mounted, a label-applying roller journaled in the same and pressed toward said bottle or can, a cam for periodically moving the swinging frame and its roller out of the way of the labeled bottle or can that the latter may fall and escape, and then for instantly returning it to its original position, and means, as said frame swings back to its original position, to receive the next bottle, to rock the label-applying roller in the saine direction, or out of the path of said next bottle or can, that the latter may drop upon the iirstnamed roller and the roller of the swinging frame, substantially as described. v

8. In a labeling-machine, the combination of a roller for engaging the bottle or can to be labeled, a swinging frame provided with a driven roller frictionally engaging the bottle or can near its opposite side, and in conjunction with the former roller rapidly revolving it, a rock-frame suitably mounted, a roller journaled in the same and pressed toward said bottle or can, a cam for periodically moving the swinging frame and its roller out of the Way of the labeled bottle or can that the latter may fall and escape, and then for instantlyreturning it to its original position, means, as said frame swings back to its original position, to receive the next bottle or can, to swing the label-applying roller in the same direction, or out of the path of said bottle or can, that the latter may drop upon the supporting-rollers, and means for causing said label-applying roller to resume its original position and press the adhesive side of an interposed label down upon said now revolving bottle or can, substantially as described.

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D. In a labeling-machine, the combination l of a roller for engaging the bottle or can to be labeled, a swinging frame provided with a driven roller frictionally engaging the bottle or can near its opposite side, and in conjunction with the former roller rapidly revolving it, a rock-frame suitably mounted, a roller journaled in the same and pressed toward said bottle or can, a cam for periodically moving the swinging frame and its roller out of the way of the labeled bottle or can that the latter may fall and escape, and then for instantly returning it to its original position, means as said frame swings back to its original position to receive the next bottle or can, to swing the label-applying roller in the same direetion,or out ofthe path ot' said next bottle or can, that the latter may drop upon the supporting-rollers, an intermittently-operated rotary bottle-feed regulator or governor, means to permit the same to operate and drop the bottle down upon and between the rstnamed roller and the roller of the swinging frame immediately the latter has assumed its original position, and means to return the label-applying roller to its original or operating position at the instant said bottle is caught by said rollers, substantially as and for the purpose described.

l0. In a labeling-machine, the combination with a suitable supporting-frame, and a shaft journaled therein, provided with a roll of connected labels, of a pair of driven mating or companion rolls between and by which the label-web is fed, a `grooved plate carried by one roll and projecting beyond the face of the roll, a pair of strips flanking said grooved plate and having their edges sloping from the periphery of the roll to the outer edge of said plate, a fixed serrated knife projecting beyond the face ofthe other roll, a sliding frame carried by said roll, normally covering the point of said knife and adapted by the resistance offered by the beveled edge of the foremost of said flanking strips to be repressed, so as to expose the knife-edge as it reaches a position opposite the groove of said plate, and thereby perforate the interposed labelweb, and springs for causing said frame to move outwardly as the knife is disengaged from said groove, and push the label-web from engagement with the knife-edge, substantially as described.

1l. In a labeling-machine, the combination with a supporting-roller for engagement with one side of the bottle or can to be labeled, and a device engaging the same at another point, of a swinging frame, a driven roller carried thereby, a driven cam-wheel engaging frictionally a part of said swinging frame to hold said roller at a third point against the bottle or can to be labeled, and provided wit-h a notch to periodically receive the engaged part of the frame to permit the frame to swing,with its roller, out of the path of the bottle or can, and a deilector-plate arranged below said supporting-rollers and adapted to deflect the bottle or can forwardly from under the machine, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we afiix our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

RICHARD I-I. IV. SCHMIDT. CORNILS F. SCHMIDT. \Vitnesses:

G. Y. THoRPE, M. R. REMLEY. 

